"What is it like to be human?" the visiting alien asked."What is it like to be an alien?""Bewildering, feeling you don't fit in.""Same.""But interesting, and there are times you do fit in.""Yeah.""So... It's like being people?""It's like being people."#MicroFiction#TootFic#SmallStories

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